Dan Brown

Author of "The Da Vinci Code," "Angels & Demons," "The Lost Symbol"

Da Vinci Code

Simon Lovell

English Comedy Magician, Card Shark Actor and Con Man

Michael York

Award-Winning Actor

Stephen Fry

British TV Presenter, Writer, Actor, Comedian & Film Director

Babel Lecture 2022 with Stephen Fry

Evan Handler

Actor, Author, Screenwriter & Journalist; Best Known for “Sex and the City,” and "Californication"

Michael Port

Bestselling Author of "Book Yourself Solid" & "The Think Big Manifesto"

John Tesh

Inspirational Radio Host, Pianist & Composer; Known for His Radio Show "Intelligence for Your Life"

John Tesh Music - YouTube

Aaron McGruder

Writer and Cartoonist; Known for "The Boondocks"

Rudy Maxa

Consumer Travel Writer & Expert

Julian Baggini

Julian Baggini is the author of several books about philosophy written for a general audience. He is the author of The Pig that Wants to be Eaten and 99 other thought experiments and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Philosophers' Magazine.

Dee Snider

Daniel "Dee" Snider is an American singer-songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality, and actor.

Michael Ironside

Actor, Voice Actor, Producer, Film Director and Screenwriter

Jeffrey Eugenides

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

Bruce Boxleitner

Actor & Science Fiction and Suspense Writer

Annette Gordon-Reed

Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Stanley Tucci

Actor, Writer, Film Producer & Film Director

N. Hamilton-Smith

British Milliner, Recording Artist, Author, Film Maker & Visionary

T.I.

Grammy Award-Winning Rapper & Record Producer

Robert Townsend

Award-Winning Filmmaker & Former CEO of the Black Family Channel

Jessica Simpson

International Music Superstar, Bestselling Author & Entrepreneur

George Ross

Trump's Right Hand Man

James McBride

New York Times Best-Selling Author & Musician

Wally Lamb

Best-Selling Novelist & Educator

Alec Baldwin

Acclaimed Broadway, Film & TV actor

Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Johann Hari

Journalist & Best-Selling Author of "Chasing the Scream"

Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

Ian Frazier

Author & Humorist; Staff Writer at "The New Yorker"

Ryan Murphy

Writer, Producer

David R. Dow

David R. Dow has defended over 100 death row inmates in 20 years. He is the Cullen Professor at the University of Houston Law Center and the Rorschach Visiting Professor of History at Rice University.

Karen Gillan

Actress, Known for Her Role as Amy Pond on "Doctor Who" & Nebula in "Guardians of the Galaxy"